Wishlist - Beaucoup fish deluxe boxset

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by holden

I guess you could argue that this era was the last time when remixers really worked with the track elements, rather than taking a vocal sample and one loop to put on top of their own crap production, which is sadly the case today.

WORD. Some awful mixes in the last 7-8 years. The remixes of UW tracks for OWB were a real mixed bag. Some of the mixes for Barking were a disgrace.

[purlieu]

Would be good to get Please Help Me, Barking Mix, Dobropet, Relentless Legs and The Large Unit all together but otherwise it's definitely short on already-released bonus material. Wouldn't be surprised if, should the album get released, it was just the 2-disc special edition with those and some unreleased pieces, rather than a 4/5 disc deluxe box.

[marcolphus]

Originally Posted by purlieu

Would be good to get Please Help Me, Barking Mix, Dobropet, Relentless Legs and The Large Unit all together but otherwise it's definitely short on already-released bonus material. Wouldn't be surprised if, should the album get released, it was just the 2-disc special edition with those and some unreleased pieces, rather than a 4/5 disc deluxe box.

Add King of Snake (rick's bungalow mix) 8:49 and you have all those tracks.

[khouri]

I don't see the value in compiling stuff that's already been released on CD, since we have it in high quality already. But the UWlive jams would be rad, along with the DVD exclusive music from Everything Everything like Kittens, Rowla, Moaner, Dark Train and everything else from the ROM portion.

But aside from the live show i mentioned, I'd love to hear early versions of all the BF tracks. The Second Toughest and Dubno releases showed us that there's potentially loads of stuff we've not only never heard, but even never heard OF.

[negative1]

i will never understand why all these tracks can't just be put on:

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1 dvd (dual layer) 9 gigs
2 bluray audio 25 gigs
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etiher as audio tracks, or files.

it's been ages for those formats [ok, maybe not the bluray audio],
but bluray discs aren't exactly new.

and if you really want to go retro, a USB stick.

other groups have done this before..

i know about the crazy depeche mode, and u2 super collections on itunes
that were hundreds of dollars. ok, we don't need that yet. (or maybe we do).

it's not that hard. restricting it to cd's is almost as bad as vinyl (and i love vinyl).

you would think they would go back to putting up extras or exclusives as
digital downloads in their store. we know there's a market for that.


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[Lx_Nen]

Absolutely agree. I would prefer the reissues gave us just Underworld's work, skipping remixes by other people entirely, from BF onwards including this material would mean either repeating a lot of very similar mixes, or being seriously incomplete. My wishlist is:

CD1 Album Remaster
CD2 Remixes by UW (Kos Bungalow and barking, etc) and studio jams
CD3 Early versions (Xfm?) and unreleased tracks
CD4 Interestingly different live versions of the album tracks (there's a wealth of choice here - long versions of Cups pt 2, fast versions of Bruce Lee, etc.)

As for the point -1 makes, I agree 4CDs didn't give STITI the room it needed with things like Carp Dreams (Koi), the Juanita edit, Dubno felt a bit incomplete without Kiteless and the Cutting Room floor mix in physical form, and both sets would have been miles better with at least 1 complete live gig from that era.

Perhaps the reason we're not getting a lot of live/video content is that it's being stored up for a data-heavy Everything Everything Box? The Live Here Now discs show there's a demand for every live gig they make available, even if unmastered and incorrectly trimmed. Rick could stick 50 DATs on a memory stick and make us very happy!

[joethelion]

Ok... if they don't include "Five Points" in the BF boxset

...I'm done.

(edit)

But what would be nice, is to finally have the "Blue Mountain Jam" in high quality. If I remember correctly... they're all 160 kbps mp3s

[negative1]

Originally Posted by joethelion

Ok... if they don't include "Five Points" in the BF boxset

...I'm done.

agreed would be good to have.

(edit)

But what would be nice, is to finally have the "Blue Mountain Jam" in high quality. If I remember correctly... they're all 160 kbps mp3s

except the first track, which was in 192k i think.

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[Mike]

I don't want to hear anything I have heard already.

Why waste space on the Blue Mountain Jam and XFM demos?!

Instead, lets have some of those 200+ demo snippets they have on DAT and find out more about how the album developed.

[joethelion]

Originally Posted by Mike

I don't want to hear anything I have heard already.

Why waste space on the Blue Mountain Jam and XFM demos?!

Instead, lets have some of those 200+ demo snippets they have on DAT and find out more about how the album developed.

true.

But seriously though - "Five Points" really has to be on it

It would be nice to hear how "Bruce Lee" developed, I vaguely recall an interview where Karl mentioned that the track started during the STITI era...